Display:

The display is a 17.3” Acer CineCrystal TFT with LED backlight (220-nit). The available displays have the HD+ resolution of 1920 x 1080 or 1600 x 900.

Bios:

The default setting of the Bios is shipped with UEFI activated. To install Linux on the V3-771G UEFI has be de deactivated. Therefore, the shift key has to be pressed together with the restart button. A menu is shown to change the UEFI setting, which allows deactivating UEFI and changing the boot order to to start from CD/DVD or USB first.

This technique is also supported by Linux with the help of the Bumblebee software, which has to be installed by hand (see Bumblebee Ubuntu).

In some cases the screen of the Acer Aspire V3-771G can stay black during the installation of Linux. In this case the additional kernel option « nomodeset » has to be transferred to Grub. After installing Bumblebee this kernel option is not necessary an more.